Origin
Open career →Tennis’s living graph
Bridges Across
Eras
Two players do not need to have shared a court for their stories to be connected. Find the shortest chain of head-to-head meetings between them.
Shortest path found
Pete Sampras
reaches
Dekel Valtzer
Historical windowComplete archive
The connection uses 3 links and 4 careers. Every step below represents a recorded head-to-head meeting within the selected window.
The complete route
Career by career
01 5 meetings32October 21, 1996 — May 6, 2002View Pete Sampras × Felix Mantilla →02 BridgeOpen career →Felix Mantilla
1 meeting10July 25, 2005View Felix Mantilla × Alan Mackin →03 BridgeOpen career →Alan Mackin
1 meeting10July 21, 2006View Alan Mackin × Dekel Valtzer →04 DestinationOpen career →Dekel Valtzer
Parallel routes
One search may have several correct answers.
Besides the detailed route, we found 4 more sequences with the same 3 links. Every route travels the shortest possible distance in the archive.
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeNicolas Lapentti
- BridgeAlan Mackin
- DestinationDekel Valtzer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeMark Philippoussis
- BridgeAlan Mackin
- DestinationDekel Valtzer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeFernando Gonzalez
- BridgeAlan Mackin
- DestinationDekel Valtzer
- OriginPete Sampras
- BridgeJarkko Nieminen
- BridgeAlan Mackin
- DestinationDekel Valtzer
How we calculate it
A search from both sides of history.
The portal traverses the head-to-head graph from both careers at the same time and stops at the first proven minimum distance. When a period is selected, only matches inside that window create links; walkovers never create connections.
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